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She waved her left hand in my face. “Well, I don’t see any rings, so you didn’t do any marking.”
“Let me get dressed, and we can go buy you a ring right now. Whatever one you want. As many as you want.”
“What I want is for you to delete the marriage license!”
A manic laugh burst out of me as I stood. “Not happening.”
She slapped her hands down on her hips, her temper as fiery red as her hair, my sweet girl eclipsed by her anger. “You don’t get to keep making these choices without me, Vaughn. This is my life. If you want to share it with me, do it the right way.”
“You want a wedding? We can have one as big or as small as you want,” I offered, trying to hold on to what was left of my sanity, an abyss that was nothing but my madness ready to consume me.
She was mine.
My wife.
Mine.
“It’s not about a wedding,” she said, shaking her head in disappointment.
Fuck.
Was that worse than her being mad? Why did it feel like it was worse?
“Then tell me what it is about!” I exploded, stabbing my fingers through my hair.
“From day one, you’ve been making all the decisions in this relationship. Something that should be a partnership, you have made into a dictatorship. I’m done living off the scraps you threw to me because you were too scared to fight for what we could have.”
“The only thing I’m afraid of is losing you!” I roared, my heart thrashing erratically. She was killing me. If she left me, I would die.
“You want me so badly?” she taunted. “You want me to be your wife so fucking much, then you do it the right way. Otherwise, I’ll never acknowledge you as my husband, license or not. I don’t care what a piece of paper says. It means nothing to me. I want a man who is going to appreciate me as his equal. Not one who treats me like I’m nothing but a pretty little toy to play with when he has a few extra minutes to spare.”
“That’s not…” I faltered when she made a humming noise in disagreement, the blaze in her eyes daring me to deny it. Realizing it must have seemed exactly like that from her point of view was a gut punch
I’d held back too much of myself. Wasted too much time and countless opportunities. She was my everything, but instead of showing her, I’d hidden in the shadows, taking what I wanted. Abi had shown me repeatedly that she was just as obsessed with me as I was with her, but I’d still denied us both.
She accepted all my crazy. All the darkness from my past. She listened and didn’t judge, didn’t run. She wasn’t scared of me or even my psychotic sister, whom I adored.
But what she couldn’t accept was being left out, not having an equal part in this life I wanted for us.
All I wanted was to make her happy. Anything she wanted, I would give her.
Including this. Fuck, especially this.
“Okay,” I choked past the lump in the throat. “If that’s what you need for me to prove I love you, I’ll do it.”
Her face softened. “I don’t need you to prove your love. I can feel it like an electrical current constantly zinging through my blood. What I need is for you to show me that I mean more to you than just a possession. I love you so much, Vaughn. I want a life with you.”
Tears blinding me, I pulled her against me, relieved when she didn’t shy away this time. “Say it again,” I pleaded, pressing my forehead to hers.
“I love you,” she whispered.
“I love you too, wildfire.” Grabbing her ass, I lifted her and turned to lay her back on the bed. “You’re never getting rid of me, do you hear me? Whatever you need, I’ll do it. Anything you want, it’s yours. But there will never be another day that I spend without you beside me.”
“As long as I know you’re there, then okay.” I kissed her hard, following her down onto the bed, already working on the button of her jeans. “Hurry,” she urged. “I ache so bad.”
I dragged her jeans down her legs, taking her panties with them before grabbing her shirt and ripping the damn thing down the middle. Her bra barely contained her magnificent tits. Had they gotten bigger already?
Licking my lips, I took a moment to look down at her. Her skin was flushed pink from desire, her pussy already glistening with her arousal. It had been too long since I’d last tasted her. Spreading her knees, I dropped between them, licking up the honey she was so eager to give me.
